News | 05 November 2014

The ICM scientists and KdUINO low cost buoys travel to Canadà

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Jaume Piera and Raul Bardají, from the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, were invited last October at the center "Living with Lakes" of the "Laurentian University" in Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) to present the European Citizen Science project Citclops (www.citclops.eu) and more specifically the low cost buoys developed in this project called KdUINO.

The ICM scientists and KdUINO low cost buoys travel to Canadà

Jaume Piera and Raul Bardají, from the Department of Physical and Technological Oceanography, were invited last October at the center "Living with Lakes" of the "Laurentian University" in Sudbury (Ontario, Canada) to present the European Citizen Science project Citclops (www.citclops.eu) and more specifically the low cost buoys developed in this project called KdUINO.

To demonstrate the capability of this type of buoys, several measurements were taken in lakes with different levels of water transparency according to their trophic status. The measurements were carried out with buoys made by students from two schools in Terres de l'Ebre, the “Institut de Deltebre” and the “Escola de Capacitació Nàutico-Pesquera de l'Ametlla de Mar”, within workshops of the outreach project funded by the FECyT called "MARduino mi buoy, nuestros datos y mar" http://marduino-project.icm.csic.es